Who is the Leader? For Dads.

“In the past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the LORD your God told you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be the leader of my people Israel.’””
‭‭1 Chronicles‬ ‭11:2‬ ‭NLT‬‬

http://bible.com/116/1ch.11.2.nlt

Is leadership a title? Is leadership something you earn from followers? This is not a new question as evidenced by this observation of David and Saul. Basically what the author said was, Saul has the title of King, but David has earned the role of leader from his followers.

In EVERY case leadership given to a leader by the follower’s choice is greater than the leadership granted by title alone.

So let’s ask this question to Fathers. Would your children choose to follow you if you did not have the title of DAD? If not what is wrong with your family leadership? How can you change your leadership so that your children would choose to follow you title or not? Harder yet? Are you the kind of leader that your wife would want to follow even if she was not married to you?

I do not ask these questions as one that can answer, Yes. I write them as one that asks the questions daily and generally fears the reality of the answers. So I don’t invite you to fix your issues, as much as I invite you to join me in a really hard journey toward a great, great goal.

Lord, it wrenches me heart to think that my wife and kids may not want to follow me if they did not have to. Please, oh please, make me into the kind of leader that my family would follow, as I follow Jesus, to the ends of the earth by their own choice.